KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest:  Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, co-founder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Beyond Einstein, The Future of Humanity, The Future of the Mind, Hyperspace, Physics of the Future, Physics of the Impossible, and his latest, The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything The post Michio Kaku: The Quest for a Theory of Everything [Re-broadcast] appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and the Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow.  Her latest book is Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical. The post The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Louis S. Warren is the W Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at U.C. Davis. He is the author of the book author of Buffalo Bill’s America, American Environmental History, and most recently,  God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. Featured image: The Ghost Dance of 1889–1891 by the Oglala Lakota at Pine Ridge. Illustration by western artist Frederic Remington, 1890 on Wikipedia. The post A History of the Ghost Dance Religious Movement appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon.  He has written widely on political economy and is an expert on environmental sociology.  He is the author of several books including Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000), The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (with Fred Magdoff, 2009), The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth (with Brett Clark and Richard York, 2010), and his latest, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. photo: Vlad Kutepov via Unsplash     The post A History of Eco-Socialism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jack Weatherford is a renown scholar on Genghis Khan . He argues in his book, Genghis Khan and the Quest for God, that Genghis Khan inspired Thomas Jefferson for the Freedom of Religion principle. The post Thomas Jefferson Inspired by Genghis Khan [Re-broadcast] appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Bess Williamson is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of the new book Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design. photo: AbsolutVision via Unsplash The post How Disability Rights Activists Created a More Inclusive Society in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. He is the author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. The post The Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad and the Strike of 1867 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written several books on African American including Stokely: A Life. Feature image: Wikimedia commons The post The Origins of the Black Power Movement and the Life of Stokely Carmichael appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University.  She is the author of several books, including Undocumented, They Take Our Jobs!, and most recently, Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration.  The post Aviva Chomsky: A History of Colonialism in Central America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog: A Grain of Sand, with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, produced by Paredon Records in 1973, and 120,000 Stories, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2021. Her memoir Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution will be released in June this year. The post Nobuko Miyamoto: From Japanese Internment to Hollywood to Third World Liberation [Re-broadcast] appeared first on KPFA.